IT Project Manager, GS-2210-14, FPL 14 (DH) (Open-Continuous)

Federal Student Aid, part of the U.S. Department of Education, is modernizing systems that support millions of students and significant financial aid. The IT Project Manager will oversee project management tasks, coordinate technical activities, and ensure effective management of IT projects.

Responsibilities:

• Managing and ensuring the performance of role-specific tasks: project, time, resource, and budget management, scope management, schedule management, risk management and coordination on contracts and contracts management and oversight
• Managing the identification and coordination of technical activities of project team(s), prioritizes and facilitates technical tasks and sequence tracks of work, of IT projects/initiatives in an iterative, incremental, parallel, and time-boxed manner aligned to deliver business value
• Managing and ensures the performance of role-specific tasks: project, time, resource, and budget management, scope management, schedule management, risk management and coordination on contracts and contracts management and oversight (in role as Contracting Officer's Technical Representative [COTR]/ Contracting Office Representative [COR])
• Identifying and consulting on technical resource requirements for projects (e.g., analysts, developers, quality assurance), and onboard qualified resources to support project needs
• Managing effectively and efficiently various Information Technology (IT) projects

Requirements:

• Must be a US Citizen
• Must complete a background investigation and fingerprint check
• One year of experience in either federal or non-federal service that is equivalent to at least a GS-13 performing two (2) out of three (3) of the following duties or work assignments: Experience leading cross-functional project teams utilizing agile methodologies and practices while identifying and managing associated risks, issues, contracts, and change requests to meet schedule, budget, and organizational policies and objectives to facilitate the delivery of incremental software or system enhancements
• Experience in applying agile methods to support technical integration, system modernization, and continuous improvement initiatives to ensure IT systems are compatible with architecture, cloud platforms, system interfaces, and cybersecurity requirements to reduce technical debt and improve release predictability
• Experience implementing risk and issue management processes, ensuring potential blockers are identified early, escalated appropriately, resolved and aligned with established change-control processes within agile release frameworks to adhere to program timelines and deliverables
• You must possess IT related experience (paid or unpaid experience and/or completion of specific, intensive training (e.g., IT certification), as appropriate) demonstrating each of the nine competencies listed below: Attention to Detail, Customer Service, Decision Making, Information Management, Interpersonal Skills, Oral Communication, Problem Solving, Teamwork, Technical Competence
• Skill in leading and directing people, teams and programs / projects associated with IT application development; the development of mission-critical enterprise class applications, and enterprise-wide IT projects
• Ability to deliver mission critical IT initiatives to meet organizational objectives using agile project management tools or techniques
• Ability to develop acquisition artifacts required to procure, and provide services for implementation, and operations and maintenance of an IT system and oversee vendor performance upon contract award
• Ability to lead complex IT initiatives while managing changing priorities, evolving legislative or regulatory requirements and coordinating with various internal and external stakeholders